Body & Soul Somatic Therapy

read moreHelping you find Healing, Joy, and Authenticity through greater awareness of your body's intelligence. Somatic therapy is body-centered healing, designed to bring you physical, mental, and emotional freedom, and create deep and lasting fulfillment in your life and in your relationships. It works by teaching your conscious mind how to understand the unconscious wisdom and intelligence of your body. Once this body information becomes conscious, it's much easier to change the habits and patterns that are no longer serving you.

read moreHakomi is a beautiful dialogue process that uses creative experiments in present-moment awareness to reach the parts of you that have been hidden from your conscious knowledge. We generally begin by sitting and talking, but it's not "conversational" talking. It's a slow, mindful descent into the rich tapestry of your present-moment experience, following the lead of your own natural curiosity. When we bump into something interesting, we then find a way to deepen your understanding of it. This may involve standing, grounding, moving, or exploring sound, touch, eye contact, posture, or any number of other ways to understand what's trying to make itself known.

read moreI offer a somatic approach to emotional, mental, physical, and spiritual healing. This means I work primarily with body awareness, especially with the various ways our emotions show up as physical sensations.

read moreFrom very early in life, we begin filtering our reality. Our minds filter out many things so that we can focus our attention and not be overwhelmed by the huge amount of sensory and conceptual information coming at us all the time. We also filter out experiences that are too difficult to understand, or too painful to manage. Filtering is a mixed blessing. It's beneficial in many ways, by allowing us to attend to the task at hand without millions of internal and external distractions, and by allowing us to survive experiences that are physically or emotionally painful.